Every year at this time I think about how neat it used to be when both of our children were home for the summer months. I was one of those parents who didn’t like it when they went back to school… the house always felt so quiet and lonely. However, every year at this time I also feel happy about (hopefully!) the weather getting a little more bearable down here in San Antonio. Good grief! The summer months down here have been pretty brutal! Hurray for autumn making it’s way to all of us!<\/p>\n
Anyway… here are next month’s upcoming TCM (Turner Classic Movies) mystery movies!<\/p>\n
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\nTHE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1945)<\/strong>
\nA man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
\nDir: Albert Lewin Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed.
\nBW- 110 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nLIFEBOAT (1944)<\/strong>
\nSurvivors of a torpedoed boat take in a German Naval officer from the sub that sank them.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak.
\nBW- 97 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nBEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956)<\/strong>
\nA novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
\nDir: Fritz Lang Cast: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer.
\nBW- 80 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n
\nCAPE FEAR (1962)<\/strong>
\nAn ex-convict plots to destroy the district attorney who sent him to prison.
\nDir: J. Lee Thompson Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen.
\nBW- 106 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nA KISS BEFORE DYING (1956)<\/strong>
\nA college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
\nDir: Gerd Oswald Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith.
\nC- 95 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\nThursday – September 5<\/h3>\n
\nTHE PHENIX CITY STORY (1955)<\/strong>
\nA crusading lawyer takes on the corrupt machine running a Southern town.
\nDir: Phil Karlson Cast: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant.
\nBW- 100 mins, CC<\/p>\nSaturday – September 7<\/h3>\n
\nCOME ON DANGER (1942)<\/strong>
\nWhen a woman turns outlaw, she’s suspected of murder.
\nDir: Edward Killy Cast: Tim Holt, Frances Neal, Ray Whitley.
\nBW- 59 mins<\/p>\n
\nTHE BIG CLOCK (1948)<\/strong>
\nA corrupt publisher tries to frame a career-driven editor for murder.
\nDir: John Farrow Cast: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan.
\nBW- 95 mins, CC<\/p>\nSunday – September 8<\/h3>\n
\nTHE BIG CLOCK (1948)<\/strong>
\nA corrupt publisher tries to frame a career-driven editor for murder.
\nDir: John Farrow Cast: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan.
\nBW- 95 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nBUNNY LAKE IS MISSING (1965)<\/strong>
\nA distraught mother searches for her seemingly non-existent daughter, bringing her sanity into question.
\nDir: Otto Preminger Cast: Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Lucie Mannheim.
\nBW- 107 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\nTuesday – September 10<\/h3>\n
\nFINGERS AT THE WINDOW (1942)<\/strong>
\nA magician uses hypnosis to create an army of murderers.
\nDir: Charles Lederer Cast: Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone.
\nBW- 81 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nHIGH WALL (1947)<\/strong>
\nPsychiatry provides the key to proving a veteran flyer innocent of his wife’s murder.
\nDir: Curtis Bernhardt Cast: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall.
\nBW- 99 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE MAD MISS MANTON (1938)<\/strong>
\nA daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
\nDir: Leigh Jason Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene.
\nBW- 80 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nSIGNPOST TO MURDER (1965)<\/strong>
\nA convicted murderer, who escaped from a mental institution, hides out in the home of a woman whose husband is missing.
\nDir: George Englund Cast: Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman, Edward Mulhare.
\nBW- 77 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nGASLIGHT (1940)<\/strong>
\nA turn-of-the-century bride moves into the house where her aunt was murdered and begins to fear she’s going mad.
\nDir: Thorold Dickinson Cast: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell.
\nBW- 84 mins, CC<\/p>\nWednesday – September 11<\/h3>\n
\nPATHS OF GLORY (1958)<\/strong>
\nA military lawyer comes to question the status quo when he defends three men accused of cowardice.
\nDir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Fred Bell, John Stein, Harold Benedict.
\nBW- 88 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\n12 ANGRY MEN (1957)<\/strong>
\nA jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty.
\nDir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley.
\nBW- 96 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955)<\/strong>
\nA bogus preacher marries an outlaw’s widow in search of the man’s hidden loot.
\nDir: Charles Laughton Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish.
\nBW- 93 mins, CC<\/p>\nFriday – September 13<\/h3>\n
\nFRISCO JENNY (1933)<\/strong>
\nA district attorney prosecutes his own mother for murder.
\nDir: William A. Wellman Cast: Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern, Helen Jerome Eddy.
\nBW- 71 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nJOURNAL OF A CRIME (1934)<\/strong>
\nBefore she can confess to shooting her husband’s mistress, a woman succumbs to amnesia.
\nDir: William Keighley Cast: Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd.
\nBW- 65 mins, CC<\/p>\nSaturday – September 14<\/h3>\n
\nNOCTURNE (1946)<\/strong>
\nA police detective refuses to believe a composer’s death was suicide.
\nDir: Edwin L. Marin Cast: George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston.
\nBW- 87 mins, CC<\/p>\nSunday – September 15<\/h3>\n
\nNOCTURNE (1946)<\/strong>
\nA police detective refuses to believe a composer’s death was suicide.
\nDir: Edwin L. Marin Cast: George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston.
\nBW- 87 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nA SHOT IN THE DARK (1964)<\/strong>
\nInspector Clouseau tries to clear a beautiful woman accused of shooting her husband.
\nDir: Blake Edwards Cast: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders.
\nC- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n
\nTHE LATE SHOW (1977)<\/strong>
\nAn aging private eye hooks up with a Hollywood eccentric to investigate his partner’s murder.
\nDir: Robert Benton Cast: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy.
\nC- 93 mins, CC<\/p>\nMonday – September 16<\/h3>\n
\nTHE BIG SLEEP (1946)<\/strong>
\nPrivate eye Philip Marlowe investigates a society girl’s involvement in the murder of a pornographer.
\nDir: Howard Hawks Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely.
\nBW- 114 mins, CC,<\/p>\n
\nKEY LARGO (1948)<\/strong>
\nA returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
\nDir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall.
\nBW- 100 mins, CC<\/p>\nTuesday – September 17<\/h3>\n
\nANGEL FACE (1953)<\/strong>
\nAn unscrupulous woman murders her loved ones for profit.
\nDir: Otto Preminger Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman.
\nBW- 91 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nDEAD RINGER (1964)<\/strong>
\nA woman murders her rich twin and tries to take her place.
\nDir: Paul Henreid Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford.
\nBW- 116 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nIN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)<\/strong>
\nA black police detective from the North forces a bigoted Southern sheriff to accept his help with a murder investigation.
\nDir: Norman Jewison Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates.
\nC- 110 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\nWednesday – September 18<\/h3>\n
\nTHE PINK PANTHER (1964)<\/strong>
\nIn the first Inspector Clouseau film, the bumbling French police detective tries to stop a notorious jewel thief from nabbing a princess’ diamond.
\nDir: Blake Edwards Cast: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Capucine.
\nC- 115 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n
\nIN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)<\/strong>
\nA black police detective from the North forces a bigoted Southern sheriff to accept his help with a murder investigation.
\nDir: Norman Jewison Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates.
\nC- 110 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\nFriday – September 20<\/h3>\n
\nTHE LIQUIDATOR (1966)<\/strong>
\nA killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a plot to assassinate England’s Prince Phillip.
\nDir: Jack Cardiff Cast: Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St. John.
\nC- 104 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\nSaturday – September 21<\/h3>\n
\nTHE BIG HEAT (1953)<\/strong>
\nA police detective whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a scarred gangster’s moll to bring down a powerful gangster.
\nDir: Fritz Lang Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando.
\nBW- 90 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE WOMAN ON THE BEACH (1947)<\/strong>
\nA coast guardsman begins to think his mistress’s blind husband can really see.
\nDir: Jean Renoir Cast: Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford.
\nBW- 71 mins, CC<\/p>\nSunday – September 12<\/h3>\n
\nTHE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1934)<\/strong>
\nA British family gets mixed up with spies and an assassination plot while vacationing in Switzerland.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam.
\nBW- 76 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nSABOTAGE (1936)<\/strong>
\nAn unhappily married woman discovers her husband is an enemy agent.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, Desmond Tester.
\nBW- 77 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE WOMAN ON THE BEACH (1947)<\/strong>
\nA coast guardsman begins to think his mistress’s blind husband can really see.
\nDir: Jean Renoir Cast: Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford.
\nBW- 71 mins, CC<\/p>\nMonday – September 23<\/h3>\n
\n24 HOURS TO KILL (1965)<\/strong>
\nDuring a 24-hour layover in Beirut, a greedy airline purser transports a cache of stolen goods.
\nDir: Peter Bezencenet Cast: Lex Barker, Mickey Rooney, Michael Medwin.
\nC- 92 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\nTuesday – September 24<\/h3>\n
\nTHE ORGANIZATION (1971)<\/strong>
\nWhen a group of revolutionaries fighting the drug rackets are framed for murder, detective Virgil Tibbs steps in to clear their names.
\nDir: Don Medford Cast: Sidney Poitier, Barbara McNair, Gerald S. O’Loughlin.
\nC- 108 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\nWednesday – September 25<\/h3>\n
\nTHEY CALL ME MISTER TIBBS! (1970)<\/strong>
\nA police detective’s investigation of a prostitute’s murder points to his best friend.
\nDir: Gordon Douglas Cast: Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Barbara McNair.
\nBW- 108 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE LONG GOODBYE (1973)<\/strong>
\nDetective Phillip Marlowe investigates shady characters involved in a long-lost friend’s murder.
\nDir: Robert Altman Cast: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden.
\nC- 112 mins, CC<\/p>\nSaturday – September 28<\/h3>\n
\nZOU ZOU (1934)<\/strong>
\nA singing star tries to clear a childhood friend of murder charges.
\nDir: Marc Allegret Cast: Josephine Baker, Jean Gabin, Pierre Larquey.
\nBW- 88 mins<\/p>\n
\nTROUBLE IN SUNDOWN (1939)<\/strong>
\nA man’s friend searches for the real crooks when he’s accused of robbery and murder.
\nDir: David Howard Cast: George O’Brien, Rosalind Keith, Ray Whitley.
\nBW- 60 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nABSENCE OF MALICE (1981)<\/strong>
\nAn ambitious reporter unwittingly slanders a businessman under federal investigation.
\nDir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban.
\nC- 116 mins, CC<\/p>\n